![]() ![]() I ended up liking WRC 8 much more than I thought I would, but at least for a layman, it definitely has its flaws. I would just see the leaderboard at the end of a tough fought track, which doesn’t give the same active drive. Since the races are all done with a single driver on the track at once, there was very little competitive action. One thing I wished I had was an indicator of how well I was placing against the other drivers. Staying on top of your game for that long is pretty hard, especially when there’s no immediate feedback to measure how well I’m doing. Of course each track was different, but some tracks took more than 5 minutes to beat. Also, the races themselves were really just a sequence of turns through very similar looking track. As I said earlier, coming from a background that isn’t in this genre of games, it was hard for me to feel like the campaign was really relevant at my skill level. The only downsides to WRC 8 for me would be that the learning curve is very steep and the gameplay gets repetitive. If the campaign mode is too tough for you, though, you can always run a training course or even try out one of the weekly challenge courses, where you can practice on real maps without being penalized in the campaign. It was really hard to keep good standing with my crew and my sponsor, so I imagine it would take much longer to get to a skill level where these things would actually come into play. I can do okay in a given race, but because my car ended up so badly damaged, I still didn’t really earn any money. WRC 8 has a rigorous campaign mode which is supposed to represent running a real team and racing in scheduled tournaments, but what killed it for me was that it is very unforgiving. They were rare, but they made up for all the other bumping and crashing I went through. There were certain points where I would nail the drift into a square right turn and make off with most of my speed and those were the most satisfying “I get it!” moments for me. At first, I disliked this – I disliked the handling of my car since it was so hard to maneuver around corners and the likes – but once I got used to the control scheme of lightly tapping brakes to drift, I felt myself really getting the hang of it. WRC 8 tries really hard to have realistic physics, which includes drifting, cutting, and other techniques that come with handling a real car and not just some dinky tight kart devised to exist in a videogame vacuum. I personally started off WRC 8 with some expectations in my mind about how driving a car in a videogame should handle, so I’d like to clear that up before going into anything else. I think it’s important to experiment with genres outside of your bubble, and I would personally recommend this game for anyone who has played other cartoon kart racing games and wants to experience something a bit more realistic. ![]() But, as I played more and more, I found myself really enjoying the game, even though I typically wouldn’t have picked it up on my own. ![]() I certainly had my doubts about the game. To the uninitiated, the rally racing game WRC 8: World Rally Championship is sure to be intimidating at first.
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